A recent protocol established CEG-IST as an international Associated Partner of the INCT-INSID (National Institute of Information and Decision Systems). The international representation of INCT-INSID has outstanding performance in the Institute's core area - multicriteria methods and group decision-making and negotiation. This group of international partners grows with the participation of other researchers who work in specific areas of application of these methods. In addition to working in the central methodological area, they also develop work in different application areas. The other distinguished international Partners of the INCT-INSID are the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV) at Stockholm University, the University of Catania, the Conflict Analysis Group of the University of Waterloo, the Concordia University, the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, the Public Choice Research Centre (PCRC) of the University of Turku (Finland), the Laboratory of Intelligent Decision Support Systems of the Poznan University of Technology, the Warsaw School of Economics, the Management Science and Statistics Centre of the University of Salford, the Organization, Personnel and International Management (OPIM) of the University of Vienna, the Toulouse Institute of Computer Science Research (IRIT), the Reliability Research Lab of the University of Alberta, the Independent Researcher Professor Ralph Keeney - Emeritus of Duke University, the Department of Operations Research of the University of Economics in Katowice, the College of Economics and Management at Najing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Intelligent Decision Support System Laboratory at Ryerson University.